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Father's Day · Urantia Radio

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Coming up on this edition of the Urantia Radio podcast where we.
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Explore the 5th epical. Revelation of new truth that we
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were going to be talking about a lot of things in honor of the.
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Father Father's Day, Some thoughts about our Father.
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And the spiritual connection that we could all make, plus
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some new information from the Urantia Foundation on global
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growth of the Urantia book and so much more.
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So and thank you for joining us on your Rancher Radio.
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Well, we are together. Again, and it's good to be here
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and I call. This episode Father's Day
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because. For many of us, it.
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Is of. Course, the weekend where we
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celebrate fathers and there's so much to say about fathers and I
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want to make an introduction that I am a father and.
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I've said before. Maybe even on.
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These podcasts that. Be becoming a father really
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revealed to me what it is. Like for the father?
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And the way that he treats. Us as we are and where?
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We are, and there's a lot to say.
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About the fact that. In today's.
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Society, fatherhood is is. A vague concept.
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To a lot of people who have. Been raised in broken homes and
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in my own experience there was a period of my life, my early
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years. Where?
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Through circumstances beyond my control that I was not able to
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see my dad, but. Later I was.
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Fortunate enough to form a wonderful relationship with him
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that lasted well into my adulthood and I'm so.
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Grateful for that. He died at a somewhat early.
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Age but I. Miss him terribly, and I think
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often about his gentleness and his kindness and his giving.
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He didn't have much, but he gave.
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What he could to try to provide a stable.
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Environment and it it's a terrible thing, so many.
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People have had. No fathers and the Urantia book
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talks about the the where the formation in the ideation of a
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father is is almost impossible to attain if you have not had
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the earthly experience of having a loving father.
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And this I think why is we were just talking about this with a.
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Psychiatrist. On.
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A radio program that I do that. The lack of fatherhood.
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Has created anxiety for a lot of young people and that it has
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forced them to. Try to.
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Figure it out on their own. So imagine.
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How beautiful a. Revelation.
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It is when we are. Told.
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In the Arantia book, and certainly in in the greatest
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religions, Christianity. That the father is really the
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basis of brotherhood. And.
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Without that fatherhood. Connection.
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The How can you possibly have a global world of brothers and
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sisters without the father? Concept the the.
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Idea of brotherhood. Is simply what is it based on?
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And today, more than half of the marriages end in divorce, which
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means someone has to pick up the pieces and try.
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To put it all back. Together again, and we wonder
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why. They're so sad.
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So much sadness. So this weekend we celebrate
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fatherhood. We celebrated because we should
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celebrate fatherhood and. I wanted to just talk a.
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Little bit about. Ways that we can communicate
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better with the father and I'll I'll let you know that I'm going
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to be a guest on a podcast with Santiago Nealon and Santiago and
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some of the. Folks over at.
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Center for Unity, You know Gabriel?
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Reinberg's great project introducing Christ to through
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through the. Urantia Book.
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Teachings to the Masses. Gabriel, by the way, I I hope
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he's well, It's of course. Over the weekend, we.
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Heard that, Israel. Launching attacks into the
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nuclear. Sites.
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Taking out military leadership in Iran.
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To stave off. A potential nuclear race and.
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And so this puts Israel. Again, in harm's way something
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they're they're. Sort of used to so our prayers.
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Go to the people all over the middle.
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East. We hope that they.
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Can get through this with the least amount of bloodshed.
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By the way. If you look in the Urantia book,
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Iran and Israel have had a long contentious relationship, even
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going back. To Zoraster, who was the I guess
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he was. It was from him that the
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Mithraism was the religion of Persia during the times of
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Christ and. In fact, we get our.
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Religion from Mithras. Or we get our.
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Christmas Day of December 25th from Mithras and during the
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early Christian conversions many of the Mithraic peoples.
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Are people whose. Whose religion was Mithraic
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eventually won over. We're won over to Christianity.
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It's a it's a shame that Christianity didn't stick in in
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Persia. Things would.
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Be a lot different if they had. So our prayers go out to the
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folks over. In Israel, and particularly
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anyone in harm's way from these battles of the kings.
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All right, so. I want to read to you something.
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About fathers something. That Jesus said.
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To his apostles and this comes. From paper 157 where Jesus is
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standing, and he says to his. 12 Apostles.
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This is early in the beginning. Of the public.
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Preaching, he says to them, You are my chosen ambassadors.
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But I know that in the circumstance, you could not
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entertain this belief as a result of mere human knowledge.
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This is a. Revelation of the Spirit of the
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Father, my Father, to your inmost.
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Souls. And when therefore you make the
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confession by the insight of the Spirit?
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Of my father which dwells. Within you I am led to declare
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that upon this foundation. Will I build the Brotherhood?
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Of the Kingdom of Heaven. Upon this rock of spiritual
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reality will I build the. Living Temple.
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Of spiritual fellowship. In the eternal realities of my
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Father's Kingdom. All the forces of evil.
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And the hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human
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fraternity. Of the Divine Spirit.
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And while my. Father's spirit shall ever be
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the. Divine guide and mentor of all
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who enter the bonds of this. Spirit fellowship to you and
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your successors. I now.
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Deliver the keys. Of the outward Kingdom, the
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authority over things temporal, the social and economic.
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Features of this. Association of men and women as
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fellows of the Kingdom. And again he charged them for
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the time being that they should tell no man that he was the son
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of. God, Jesus was.
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Beginning to have faith in the loyalty and integrity.
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Of his apostles. The master conceived.
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That a faith. Which could stand what his
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chosen representatives had recently passed through would
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undoubtedly. Endure the fiery trials which
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were just ahead. And they would emerge from the
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apparent wreckage of all their hopes into the new light of a
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new dispensation. And thereby.
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Be able to. Go forth to enlighten a world
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sitting in darkness. On this day, the Master began to
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believe in the faith. Of his apostles.
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Save one, and the beginning of it is marked by the relationship
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establishment. Of the Father.
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And we, I'm going to be on this program as I mentioned in a
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couple of days and, and, and if you're listening to this.
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Podcast over father. 'S Day weekend, Santiago and I
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are. Going to talk about prayer.
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And it's come up on these. Podcasts that.
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We're at a time in human history and again, this relates to the
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breakdown of the family in many Western cultures, particularly
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in the West, where broken homes have resulted in broken dreams
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and people have been cut off from the.
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Spiritual circuit that the father provides to each of his
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children who were. Born with his image to be able
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to communicate with their inner spirit, That inner spirit light
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that allows them to connect this enormous gulf, this enormous
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bridge between paradise and we out here on this lowly blue
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planet. Far out at the edge of Jesus's.
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Domain of Nebadon and yet we are able almost like in the
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possession of Bluetooth. Or a cell.
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Phone, we can get the signal, but in order to get the signal,
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you have to turn on your cell phone, right?
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So that's a. A very.
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Bad metaphor, but. It sticks.
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Because in order. For us to.
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Contact the father. We need to be able to.
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Call the. Father and I firmly believe if
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there's any teaching that. Overrides every other.
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Teaching in the Urantia book, it's the importance of
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establishing that connection between the child and the
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parent, and it is that redeeming quality of being able to
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connect. With your earthly father.
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Just for me as it was. As it is.
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Also to connect with our Heavenly Father, most of the
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teachings that came from. Christ were centered.
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Around the relationship between the father and the.
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Child. The child has a right.
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To petition the father. The child has.
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Many rights endowed to him because he.
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Is a child. Of a loving father.
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But how do you teach? This to young people today.
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Who are the? Results of broken homes where
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perhaps they never. Saw their dad or.
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Maybe they had a tragedy happen. With their father.
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And fathers and and sons need each other, just like fathers
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and daughters need each other. But this has been downplayed in
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the current trajectory of our culture.
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We seem to assume that children will be fine if they just at
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least have their mother and the mother takes on a great role and
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has to compensate. For the the father who's not.
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There and she doesn't even realize the value and then it it
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is so truly unfortunate that so many young people when they get
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involved in relationships and they don't think what kind of a
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father is this person going to be?
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They're more focused on what what kind of husband he's going
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to be, but they should be thinking about long term.
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Is this the kind of of man that I want to raise my children and
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rear them in discipline and maturity?
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And it doesn't end when they turn 18, by the way.
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I know that for a fact. And many of the listeners to
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this program will will say the same thing, you know,
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fatherhood. Is is.
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Equally valuable not only to the children, but to the father.
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I've learned so many valuable lessons and I'm grateful for all
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of the lessons that my father taught me that I'm even.
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More appreciative of the the security.
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And the faith and the stability that I get from my spiritual
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Father and I and. Truth is, I.
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I don't call him enough. I probably could call on God a
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lot more and I I most likely don't.
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Because I just feel that there's other.
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People who who are in much greater need than me and I try
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to carry on as the ambassador. The ambassador.
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Of the Father. And it's an interesting concept.
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Go up to someone, a secular person that you know, and ask
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him do you believe? That God is a.
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Father and you, you might. Be surprised at what they tell
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you. Many people.
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Will will act as if you. Just introduced a foreign
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language to them and and it's mainly because.
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Our society has. Downplayed the fatherhood
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element of God and they look at him only as a creator who can
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either lessen or increase. Pain.
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The number one reason people don't believe in God?
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Is because if there was a God, why is?
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There so much pain in the. World.
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I've heard Jimmy Gervais say that.
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Many a time Ricky Gervais, I mean atheists are often
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conflicted by this. Idea that if there is truly a
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loving. Father.
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Why would he allow us to suffer well as the.
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Arantia book explains. It's about free.
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Will You cannot have free will without the potentiality of
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evil. Because it's the free will that
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gives us exercise over whether we choose the Father's way.
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Or the material. Way but.
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Again the father. Goes through these.
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Experiences with us. And through his.
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Spirit fragment. Tries to coerce.
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In a gentle way, can't push us, but he can guide us.
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He can offer us an alternative and this is where the.
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Power of prayer. Really kicks in because when
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you're in a life changing moment and you feel that you don't have
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an option and you take that moment at that time and it
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happened so many times. Where the pressures of life are.
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So insurmountable and you're forced and back into a corner.
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You don't know what to do. What is the right?
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Decision God please help me make the right decision and it is
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that personal spiritual motivation to.
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Find the truth that allows. The connection to occur between
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the father fragment and the father himself.
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Prayers are answered. It just happened a few days ago.
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I was in a situation where I really didn't know what to do.
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My backup was was up against the wall and I went to my father and
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I said what can I do? Give me show me the road map.
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I'm open to any suggestion you might have and within a couple.
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Of days I I I could clearly see that God had delivered.
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On the answer and it was a very natural occurrence and I was.
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Actually quite surprised. And I'm sure that.
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Jesus would have said why? Why were you surprised?
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And he'd be. Right, so we.
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Spent a few minutes talking about the importance.
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Of fathers. And it also tied into that.
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Is the. Importance of prayer.
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So here's what I'll suggest. To you if you have an
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opportunity. The podcast that I will be.
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On with Santiago. Who's Who's a great Your answer
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book reader? We're going to be talking about.
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Prayer, but we're. Also going to spend a little bit
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of time talking about. The podcast that.
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That you've been kind enough to enjoy with me on these your
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Rancher radio. Podcast So if you have a.
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Question and you would like me to answer.
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I can. I can certainly bring them up
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during the interview with Mr. Santiago and you can e-mail me
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any question you like. You have a question about the
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program. How we got here.
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My favorite stuff about. Anything that you feel like you
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want to just e-mail me urantiabookradio@gmail.com.
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Urantiabookradio@gmail.com. Take a quick.
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Break then I want to spend a little bit of time talking about
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the latest numbers on the Urantia book from the the most
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recent. Update I suppose.
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From the Urantia Foundation, so we'll take a.
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Quick break and. We'll come back.
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We'll just spend a few minutes on how the Urantia book is
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doing. And in the meantime, feel free
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again to e-mail me Jim Watkins. And that is Urantia.
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Book radio at. Gmail.com.
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Be right back. All right.
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Well, thanks to MO Siegel, president of the Urantia
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Foundation, he has issued out the latest comprehensive report
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on how the Urantia book is doing.
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I'll give you a. Couple of notes on this printed
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2010. 1200 copies of the Urantia book in English, Portuguese and
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Spanish. This year held the first town
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hall meetings for the Spanish speaking readership.
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Which is. Huge and growing, they've also
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initiated the first round of the 2025 Mustard Seed Grants
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program, which you should take advantage of if you're an artist
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or you're a content producer and you have a.
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Deep, deep. Love for the Urantia book and
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you feel? Compelled to do.
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Something the Mustard Seed program will provide funding
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for. Projects so.
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You might want to look into that.
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I always like to know. Like where it's.
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Growing What's the online because to me, I think from this
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point on moving forward, we have to admit that the.
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Urantia. Book is probably most likely
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going to be spread online more so than although I.
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Think it's great to have a copy of the book.
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I have 5 I think I have. 5 But let's look at some of the
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statistics. 7% growth downloads. Over 2020. 4.
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Sales of the Urantia book totaled 4. 1650 Books.
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For the quarter, that's down. Slightly from.
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The first quarter. Of 2020. 4 total book.
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Distribution came to 16,000, that's down 36%.
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That's total book distribution. Downloads were down 43% from
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2024 and donated. Books totaled 5. 122, that's 10%
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down from 2020. 4 so. This was not a good.
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Year for growth. Of the Urantia book based on.
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Just quarterly reports. What could that be?
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I wonder what the what do you think it?
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Is what gets. In the way of growth
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distractions, perhaps? Maybe things have become so
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political and divisive and heated that people aren't
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looking. For spiritual truth.
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A breakdown and and I know that we've.
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Heard stories about the breakdown of.
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Church attendance and. I have a perspective.
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About that, I think that most church attendance, if it's down,
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it's. Because the church itself has,
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sort of. Lost its ground.
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For lack. Of a better term, it's become
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woke we we spend more time trying to fix.
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Our ails, our spiritual ills through.
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Medicine and noise and there's, there's a lot more noise now
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than there used to be. If you notice everybody's
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staring into their smartphones skimming through the news and,
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and it gets, you know, rather time consuming.
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I like to spend my time as much as I can when I can, just
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reading passages from the Arantia book.
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I want to close with this. Particular paragraph since we
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are celebrating Father's Day with this.
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It's from the nature. Of the Father.
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In the first. Papers.
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And I'll close with. This it says.
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As we see the universal. Father revealed throughout.
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His universe as we discern him in dwelling the myriads of
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creatures. As we behold.
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Him in the persons of His sovereign sons, as we continue
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to sense His divine presence here and there near.
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And afar let. Us not doubt nor question his
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personality primacy. Notwithstanding all these
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far-flung distributions, he remains a true person and
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everlastingly maintains personal connection with the countless.
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Hosts of his creatures scattered throughout the.
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Universe of universes. The idea?
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Of the personality of the Universal Father is an enlarged
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and truer concept of God which has come to mankind.
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Chiefly through revelation. Reason, wisdom, and religious
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experience all infer and imply the personality.
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Of God, but. They do not.
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Altogether validate it. Even the indwelling.
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Thought adjuster. Is pre personal the truth and
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maturity of any religion is directly proportional to its
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concept of the infinite personality of God and to.
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Its grasp of the absolute. Unity of Deity.
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The idea? Of a personal deity becomes then
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the measure of religious. Maturity after.
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Religion has first formulated the concept of the unity of God,
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and again as a child. You have a.
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Right to engage. With the father.
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Every rule in the book in the universe.
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Is. Shrouded in this truth and the
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universe works. Together we have.
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Not only the Spirit of the Father in us, but we also.
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Have the spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit.
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We have the Spirit Son, we have the seven Adjutants, and then we
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also have the Mother Spirit. Plus the service of the angels
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by our side. So that tells you that the
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universe is a friendly place. So trust Him and that's the
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message. You've been listening to the
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Urantia Radio Podcast where we explore the 5th epical
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Revelation of New Spiritual Truth.
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